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Hacker News may not be very pretty, but it gets a lot of things right typographically, by not trying very hard. I think this might be a good opportunity to play
by brailsafe 5y ago
Hacker News may not be very pretty, but it gets a lot of things right typographically, by not trying very hard. I think this might be a good opportunity to play around with learning to improve your layout and type skills a bit.
In particular, I don't think that slab serif typeface with dangling descenders is a good choice for what is a list of a few closely grouped lines of text, as opposed to something like the paragraph typeface HN uses for the body of comments. Likewise, those grouped lines of text need much more room to breath. It's amazing how much work or experience it can take to make a even a link list readable and usable.
- memorable 5y agoThank you for your comments! I actually borrow the Zilla Slab[0] font from Mozilla Foundation website[1] just because I thought it looks pretty good. I don't realized how much it is a problem to everyone (It seems like typography and links are common problems of my interface). I will need to find a more appropriate font to use for this case then. [0]https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Zilla+Slab https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Zilla+Slab [1]: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/ https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/
- brailsafe 5y agoSlab Serifs can be really nice, but they can also be too decorative for a lot of dense text. Slabs, much like Didot, really need to use negative space effectively, along with a great body text pairing, to work well imo